Monday, 27 August 2012

This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they
wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God.
One of the women offered to find out the process of
refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible Study. That week,
the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She
didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity
about the process of refining silver.
As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver
over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one
needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were
hottest as to burn away all the impurities.
The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot
spot;then she thought again about the verse that says: "He sits as a refiner and
purifier of silver."
She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to
sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver was being refined. The
man answered that yes, he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he
had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the
silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.
The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the
silversmith, "How do you know when the silver is fully refined?" He smiled at
her and answered, "Oh, that's easy -- when I see my image in it."
If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember
that God has his eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His image
in you.
Pass this on right now. This very moment, someone needs
to know that God is watching over them. And, whatever they're going through,
they'll be a better person in the
end.-author unknown

Friday, 24 August 2012

I was deleting old drafts, and the "posts" page popped up, and I deleted a couple of posts!!! SO FRUSTRATING! It took all the strength I had to make that post yesterday or the day before. It was the one about what we can learn from suffering and trials. Oh man! FIVE of them are gone. Oh well... Everything happens for a reason.
*sigh*.

Thursday, 23 August 2012

I’m sorry I’ve only posted 2 posts
in 1 year. My health got much worse, which affected my concentration, so I am no
longer able to think like I used to. I part of each day semi-conscious due to
various health problems, and even my vision changes from hour to hour.

However, through it all, I am at
peace, more than any other time in my life. I feel the Lord near. I feel His
guidance, His whispers, His comforts through the Holy Ghost. I am most blessed!!
Depression and anxiety are gone. I get frustrated now and then, but not a true
clinical depression.

In January I went through a
divorce. I tried for 8 years to get permission for my husband to immigrate to
Canada. Why it took 8 years, will never make sense to me. It was only a few
years that we realized that this marriage would not work out. I had become too
sick to help him in every way a wife helps a husband, and to help him adapt to a
whole new culture. We wanted to stop the immigration process earlier, but we
weren’t allowed to, unless we claimed that one of us committed marriage fraud,
which would mean jail. So we just kept going through the torment of paperwork
over and over and over, and the emotional turmoil involved. The Dr. suspected
that a lot of my heart problems came from the immigration stress for so many
years. When we learned that hubby would not even be allowed a visitor’s visa,
and I’m too sick to go to another country, we decided it’s best if we broke it
off, to give hubby a chance to fall in love and have a normal marriage with
children.

In February I had a head
injury that has also caused problems. They called it a mild TBI (Traumatic Brain
Injury), with post-concussion syndrome.

In April a Dr. told me I need a
heart transplant, so I guess one of the big problems with my brain is not enough
blood getting to it. I won’t be getting the heart transplant. I don’t qualify
for the transplant list, because I have other organs that are failing; and
because lupus would attack the new heart too. Even if my health was better, I’ve
been told that in Canada, (or possibly just my province) people who are on
disability don’t qualify, because the gov’t doesn’t spend large amounts on us. I
was denied a pacemaker/internal defibrillator a number of years ago. I am not a
bit scared though, because every time my heart has stopped, if there wasn’t a
medical person around to restart it, God would restart it, and He will continue
to do so until my purpose is finished for being kept alive.

I’ve missed the blogging
community, and I’ve lost a lot of friends because I was not strong enough to
keep up with email replies. I’m hoping I can attend to my blog more often, but I
might be using a lot of pictures rather than a lot of writing. I’ll do what I
can. Thanks to those of you who have kept in touch with me through all of this.
I hope to be able to start blog-hopping again.May the Lord bless you as He
has blessed me!

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